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School attendance to be mandatory in England from September

Gavin Williamson, the education secretary, has announced that attendance will be mandatory in English schools for all pupils from September, and that schools will be expected to teach a full ...

Boris Johnson's Campaign Launch Speech (in full)

Boris Johnson launched his bid to be next Conservative leader and Prime Minister on the 12th of June. The full text of Boris Johnson's capaign launch speech is below: It’s a measure of the ...

MOD delivers over 10,000 items of critical medical equipment to NHS in COVID-19 response

More than 10,000 items of critical medical equipment have been despatched to the NHS frontline from the MOD’s Defence Fulfilment Centre in Donnington, Shropshiore In the three months up until the ...

Noel Gallagher rails against Brexit, anti-Brexit campaigners, Labour and milkshake throwers

Noel Ghallager gave an interview with the Manchester Evening News published today. In it, he rails against the political culture that's developed over the last few years. He explains how he ...

Combating climate change – why investors should keep their shares in fossil fuel companies

As we begin to engage with the climate emergency and the impact of carbon dioxide emissions, calls have grown to stop investing in companies engaged in fossil fuel production – a practice known as ...

Biggest Far Right Group in the European Parliament Formed

There has been a worrying uptick in support for far right parties across Europe in recent years. This has translated into the European parliament in the form of an influx of far right politicians. ...

BME groups sound alarm over ‘US style voter suppression’ through UK mandatory ID plans

BME organisations and democracy campaigners are warning that government plans to force all voters to show ID at the ballot box risk locking black and ethnic minority people out of democracy. Voter ID ...

DRC Ebola outbreak spreads to neighboring Uganda, activating rapid preparedness response

On June 12, Ugandan officials from the Ministry of Health released a press statement confirming two Ebola cases. A 5-year-old boy and his grandmother, 50, tested positive for Ebola on June 10 and ...

COVID-19 projections show emerging risk in US Mid-Atlantic and Midwest

New COVID-19 case projections released today by PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) paint a sobering picture for much of the United States over the ...

Tim Martin tells Boris Johnson: if you think about re-opening negotiations with the EU 'you better wake up and apologise'

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14% of 'shielded' people need to visit shops to access groceries, according to Which? survey

New research released by consumer group Which? today paints a stark picture of the hardship many vulnerable people are facing. Their survey, running from the 29th of May to the 17th of June, found ...

How Europe has Changed Parliamentary Sovereignty

The doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty, defined by Dicey as parliament having ‘the right to make any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as ...

World Bank announces $3 million of new funding for Dominica's COVID-19 recovery

Having responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, on Tuesday, the Commonwealth of Dominica lifted its state of emergency. On June 26th, the World Bank announced that it will ...

Will a “Green Wave” Sweep the Next General Election?

Green Party’s vote has ballooned, but can it retain new support and stand out among pro-EU competitors? Green political parties achieved unprecedented success across all four Home Nations and much ...

Germany amps up battery production with massive state subsidies

To meet its Paris Agreement commitments, as well as other domestic decarbonisation objectives, the German government has recently ramped up investment in renewables. Part of this is through an ...

Change UK to Change Name (Again)

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Georgian parliament ratifies constitutional amendments introducing proportional representation

Earlier this week (29th June), the Parliament of Georgia voted to adopt a series of constitutional amendments designed to strengthen Georgia's democracy. This follows an electoral reform ...

How To Protect Your Digital Privacy in The UK

A 2015 comprehensive study by Ofcom—a UK regulatory authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries—suggested there was a growing concern among web and app users about ...

Book review: The Monstrous Member

I don’t think I’m the only ex-Labour member who is still traumatised by 2015, or the only liberal who still has nightmares about 2016. The atmosphere was unique and grim, and looking back it is ...

No Offence

We now live in a world where to be offended is considered a legitimate argument. Where people can be convicted for uttering an opinion which goes against the prevailing wisdom or questioning ...

How will the government reach it’s recycling targets?

As global temperatures rise and oceans fill with waste, people increasingly value how much attention government’s give to being environmentally friendly. In some regards, the Conservative ...

A soft Brexit now looks more likely than ever

Over recent weeks, we’ve gone from despair to relief to despair again watching the Brexit process. At long last the UK and EU have agreed an exit deal bringing to an end the first stage of Brexit. ...

Europe’s Darkest Hour: The Danger Comes from the UK and Italy

Two political developments threaten Europe: A no-deal Brexit that would certainly hurt the British economy but would also be painful on the continent, and an out-of-control deficit in Italy. Taken ...

The charity causes that Brexit Britain's Leave and Remain voters support

The great British public are a charitable bunch. But people do not give out their hard-earned cash equally, and they prefer certain charities. A new study I led suggests that a person’s political ...

Johnson v Hunt: Where do they stand?

We now know that Johnson and Hunt are the candidates Conservative MPs have decided to put to members. They have both put forward their policies, and have attended hustings and debates. We have ...

Whitewashing History

The recent protests by white supremacists and openly racist members of the far Right of America in Charlottesville Virginia are an aberration on civil society, interpersonal cooperation and the idea ...

Johnson dodges questions over domestic incident

On Friday, the Guardian broke an explosive story about Johnson’s personal life that may derail his run for party leader and prime minister. They reported that he and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds ...

How International Students Add Billions To Economy Of The UK

According to the latest statistics and figures, international students, who flock to the UK every year, help to generate the impact of more than £25 billion to the economy. Research, which has ...

Boris Johnson supporters want no-deal Brexit and less talk of climate change – new survey of party members reveals

By the end of July the UK will have a new prime minister. They will be chosen not by the electorate but by a group of around 160,000 members of the Conservative Party. This selectorate gets to choose ...

Trump’s Idyllic USA: A White America or a Vibrant America?

Trump's policies may make America white again, but also hobbled and weakened, a nation that has squandered its greatest assets — its people and its democracy White hatred put Donald Trump in the ...

Stella Creasy is right to call for better maternity rights for MPs

Labour MP Stella Creasy has been calling for better maternity rights for MPs. She is not the first MP to call for better maternity rights; last year Lib Dem MP (and current leadership contender) Jo ...

How worried should we be about North Korea?

In the past week tensions have ramped up between the USA and North Korea. Donald Trump is promising ‘fire and fury’ and boasting about his nuclear arsenal and North Korea is making explicit ...

Trump Companies Accused of Tax Evasion in Panama

The owners of a 70-story Panama City hotel tower formerly managed by President Donald Trump’s companies are accusing them of stiffing the Panamanian government. In a legal filing Monday in an ...

The UK Democrats: A New Political Party Destined for Disaster?

At last we have a new anti-Brexit party. They call themselves The Democrats, and they have high hopes. They also have a series of potentially fatal flaws. There are a series of problems with any new ...

A deliberate fix for democracy

Take a group of random citizens, give them the facts and let thoughtful discussion unfold As hard as it may be to believe — especially in times of government shutdowns and partisan paralysis — ...

A New Generation of White Supremacists Emerges in Charlottesville

The white supremacist forces arrayed in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend — the largest gathering of its sort in at least a generation — represented a new incarnation of the white ...

Rory Stewart: who is he and does he really stand a chance against Boris Johnson?

On the basis of the immediate coverage of the first Conservative leadership ballot, there were two winners and eight losers. Boris Johnson grabbed the headlines with his impressive tally of 114 ...

White House seeks to clarify Trump's Charlottesville Comments

US President Donald Trump sparked outrage yesterday when he condemned 'many sides' for the violence in Charlottesville. The White House has since tried to clarify these comments. When asked ...

Labour's confusing position on Brexit is the most likely to win them an election

Labour’s current Brexit policy strikes the only balance that can possibly see them win the next election. I know that is going to be a controversial statement. Brexit is one of the most divisive ...

Anna Soubry threatens to quit the Tories and form new party over hard Brexit

Anna Soubry has threatened to leave the Conservative party should the government press on with a hard Brexit in an article in the Mail on Sunday. In doing so, she has become the first Conservative MP ...

Beyond Brexit, these are the issues Conservative leadership candidates should be debating

The Conservative leadership contest is entering its most intense phase. Potential leaders are being whittled down by their parliamentary colleagues before the party’s roughly 160,000 members vote ...

State of Emergency Declared in Charlottesville as US Far Right Protests Turn Violent

A planned protest in Virginia by white nationalists was abandoned on Saturday after a spate of violence prompted the governor to declare a state of emergency and law enforcement officers to clear the ...

The first Lib Dem leadership hustings in London (in full)

The first hustings in the Lib Dem leadership race took place in London recently. This is likely to be a very close race, with two politically capible candiates with broadly similar visions for the ...

Modern Journalism: The Concept of Balance

Fake Morality is Deceiving the Public During last year’s US Presidential election, Buzzfeed reported on sexual allegations about Donald Trump that they were unable to confirm, yet they published ...

Publisher of Macedonian edition of Hitler's ‘Mein Kampf’ releases book by former PM Nikola Gruevski

This story originally appeared on Meta.mk News Agency, a project of Metamorphosis Foundation. An edited version is published below as part of a content-sharing agreement. A publisher from ...

Does British Foreign Policy Really Make us a Target for Terrorist Attacks?

Manchester, London Bridge, Nice, Berlin. The list goes on. Jeremy Corbyn recently stated that the rising threat of terrorism could be directly traced to British foreign policy and intervention in the ...

How likely is Chuka Umunna to become next Lib Dem leader?

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No trade deal before financial settlement - Barnier

The EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier has urged the UK to provide more clarity over the UK’s financial contribution to the EU after Brexit, on citizen’s rights, on the Good Friday Agreement ...

Why the Conservative Leadership Contenders Have Backed Themselves Into a Corner Over Brexit

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HS2 announcement helps Carillion weather storm, while government seeks assurances

Over the last week, Carillion – the construction giant – has been in turmoil. After the company issued a profit warning, a series of influential investment funds betted against the ...

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